Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction
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The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction is an annual prize awarded by the University of Georgia Press
named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor
.
Established in 1983 to encourage young writers by bringing their work to the attention of readers and reviewers, it has since become a significant proving ground for newcomers.
It is awarded annually to two winners for a collection of short stories
or novella
s. Authors of winning manuscripts receive a cash award of US$1000, and their collections are subsequently published under a standard contract. The Press occasionally selects more than two winners.
On October 27, 2005, the University of Georgia Press rescinded author Brad Vice
's Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and recalled copies of his collection The Bear Bryant
Funeral Train. Vice was alleged to have plagiarized
sections of one story from Carl Carmer
's book Stars Fell on Alabama (1934) (a charge that Vice and others dispute).
University of Georgia Press
The University of Georgia Press or UGA Press is a publishing house and is a member of the Association of American University Presses.Founded in 1938, the UGA Press is a division of the University of Georgia and is located on the campus in Athens, Georgia, USA...
named in honor of the American short story writer and novelist Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short-story writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries...
.
Established in 1983 to encourage young writers by bringing their work to the attention of readers and reviewers, it has since become a significant proving ground for newcomers.
It is awarded annually to two winners for a collection of short stories
Short Stories
Short Stories may refer to:*A plural for Short story*Short Stories , an American pulp magazine published from 1890-1959*Short Stories, a 1954 collection by O. E...
or novella
Novella
A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...
s. Authors of winning manuscripts receive a cash award of US$1000, and their collections are subsequently published under a standard contract. The Press occasionally selects more than two winners.
On October 27, 2005, the University of Georgia Press rescinded author Brad Vice
Brad Vice
Brad Vice is a fiction writer whose short story collection, The Bear Bryant Funeral Train, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press...
's Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction and recalled copies of his collection The Bear Bryant
Bear Bryant
Paul William "Bear" Bryant was an American college football player and coach. He was best known as the longtime head coach of the University of Alabama football team. During his 25-year tenure as Alabama's head coach, he amassed six national championships and thirteen conference championships...
Funeral Train. Vice was alleged to have plagiarized
Plagiarism
Plagiarism is defined in dictionaries as the "wrongful appropriation," "close imitation," or "purloining and publication" of another author's "language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions," and the representation of them as one's own original work, but the notion remains problematic with nebulous...
sections of one story from Carl Carmer
Carl Carmer
Carl Lamson Carmer was an author of nonfiction books, memoirs, and novels, many of which focused on Americana such as myths, folklore, and tales. His most famous book, Stars Fell on Alabama, was an autobiographical story of the time he spent living in Alabama...
's book Stars Fell on Alabama (1934) (a charge that Vice and others dispute).
Winners
- 2009 Linda L. Grover for The Dance Boots
- 2009 Jessica TreadwayJessica Treadway-Life:She was raised in Albany, New York.She graduated from the State University of New York at Albany, and from Boston University, with an MA.She worked as a reporter for United Press International....
for Please Come Back to Me - 2008 Geoffrey BeckerGeoffrey Becker-Life:He teaches at Towson University.His work appeared in Antioch Review, Colorado Review, Crazyhorse, Crescent Review, failbetter.com, Florida Review, Gettysburg Review, Kansas Quarterly, North American Review, Ploughshares, Prairie Schooner, Quarterly West, Roanoke Review, Sonora Review, The...
for Black Elvis - 2008 Lori OstlundLori Ostlund-Life:She graduated from Minnesota State University, Moorhead and from the University of New Mexico with an M.A.She teaches at The Art Institute of California – San Francisco....
The Bigness of the World - 2007 Peter SelginPeter SelginPeter Selgin is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, essayist, editor, and illustrator. Selgin is currently the at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York.-Biography:...
for Drowning Lessons - 2007 Andrew J. PorterAndrew J. PorterAndrew J. Porter is an American short story writer.-Life:Andrew Porter graduated from Vassar College, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop....
for The Theory of Light and Matter - 2006 Anne PanningAnne PanningAnne Panning is an award winning writer of both fiction and nonfiction. She teaches English at State University of New York at Brockport and co-directs the Brockport Writers Forum.-Biography:...
for Super America - 2006 Peter LaSallePeter LaSalle-Life:He graduated from Harvard University, and the University of Chicago with an M.A. in 1972.His work appeared in the AGNI, Antioch Review, Paris Review, Ploughshares, Tin House, Virginia Quarterly Review....
for Tell Borges If You See Him - 2006 Margot SingerMargot Singer-Life:She graduated from Harvard University, Oxford University with a M.Phil. in 1986, and University of Utah with a Ph.D. in 2005.She worked for the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company, From 1986 until 1997, where she was a Principal in the New York Office.She teaches at Denison...
for The Pale of Settlement - 2003 Ed AllenEd Allen (writer)Edward Allen is an American novelist, and short story writer.-Life:He grew up in New York, and graduated from Goddard College, and attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop in 1972....
for Ate It Anyway - 2003 Catherine BradyCatherine Brady-Life:She graduated from Hollins College with an MA, and from the University of Massachusetts with an MFA.She was on the board, served as Vice-President and President of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.She teaches at the University of San Francisco....
for Curled in the Bed of Love - 2002 Kellie WellsKellie WellsKellie Wells is an American novelist, and short story writer.-Life:She graduated from University of Kansas, University of Montana with an MFA, and Western Michigan University with a PhD....
for Compression Scars - 2002 Rita CiresiRita CiresiRita Ciresi was is an Italian-American short story writer, and novelist.-Life:She graduated from Pennsylvania State University with an M.F.A.She teaches at the University of South Florida....
for Mother Rocket - 2001 Bill RoorbachBill RoorbachBill Roorbach is an American novelist, short story writer, memoirist, nature writer, journalist, blogger, and critic.-Life:In 1954 his family moved to suburban Boston....
for Big Bend - 2000 Robert AndersonRobert Anderson-Arts and entertainment:*Robert Anderson , Scottish literary scholar and editor*Robert Rowand Anderson , Scottish architect*Robert Alexander Anderson , American composer...
for Ice Age - 2000 Darrell SpencerDarrell SpencerDarrell Spencer is an American novelist and short story writer. He is best known for his short stories, which are widely published in literary journals and have been the recipients of several awards.-Life:...
for Caution: Men in Trees - 1999 Mary ClydeMary ClydeMary Clyde is an American short story writer, author of Survival Rates , which won the 1999 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press...
for Survival Rates - 1999 Hester KaplanHester Kaplan-Life:She grew up in Cambridge. She graduated from Barnard College.She has taught writing at Rhode Island School of Design and teaches at Lesley University....
for The Edge of Marriage - 1998 Frank SoosFrank Soos-Life:He grew up in Pocahontas, Virginia.He graduated from Davidson College in 1972 and the University of Arkansas.He taught at University of Alaska Fairbanks.His work appeared in North Dakota Quarterly, Quarterly West.-Awards:...
for Unified Field Theory - 1996 Ha JinHa JinJīn Xuěfēi is a contemporary Chinese-American writer and novelist using the pen name Ha Jin . Ha comes from his favorite city, Harbin.-Early life:...
for Under the Red Flag - 1996 Wendy BrennerWendy BrennerWendy Brenner is currently an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Brenner is the author of two books. Her stories and essays have appeared in such magazines as Allure, Seventeen, Travel & Leisure, Ploughshares, and Mississippi Review, and have been anthologized...
for Large Animals in Everyday Life - 1996 Paul RawlinsPaul Rawlins-Life:He graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA, 1989, and an MA, 1992.His fiction appeared in Glimmer Train, Southeast Review, Sycamore Review, Tampa Review, and Prism.He lives in Salt Lake City.-Awards:...
for No Lie Like Love - 1995 C. M. MayoC. M. Mayo-Life:A Texas native, C. M. Mayo was raised in Northern California and educated as an economist at the University of Chicago. She is a long-time resident of Mexico City, where she worked at an investment bank and at ITAM, a private university. At ITAM she taught international and development...
for Sky Over El Nido - 1993 Alyce MillerAlyce MillerAlyce Miller is an award-winning American writer who currently lives in Bloomington, Indiana.- Biography :She was born in Zurich, Switzerland and lived "most of her life" in the San Francisco Bay Area. Currently, she lives in Bloomington, Indiana....
for The Nature of Longing - 1993 Dianne NelsonDianne NelsonDianne Nelson Oberhansly is an American short story writer.She was raised in Nevada, Kansas, and Arizona, and graduated from Arizona State University with a B.A. and M.F.A. She has taught widely in public schools and private writing workshops.She married Curtis Oberhansly, who is a founding...
for A Brief History of Male Nudes in America - 1992 Alfred DePewAlfred DePew-Life:He grew up in St. Louis.He taught at Maine College of Art. He lived in Portland, Maine.In 2006, he moved to Vancouver.He writes for the Vancouver Observer.-Awards:* 1990 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction...
for The Melancholy of Departure - 1991 T. M. McNallyT. M. McNally-Life:Born May 20th, 1969, he was raised in Chicago, Il.He moved to Arizona when he was 15. He graduated from Rockford College, and Arizona State University.He teaches at Arizona State University Tempe Campus....
for Low flying Aircraft - 1991 Robert H. AbelRobert H. AbelRobert Halsall Abel is an American short story writer, and novelist.-Life:Robert Halsall Abel was born on May 27, 1941 in Painesville, Ohio. His father was Robert H...
for Ghost Troops - 1990 Debra MonroeDebra MonroeDebra Monroe is an American novelist and short story writer. She has been nominated for the National Book Award twice and is a winner of the prestigious Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. -Early Life and Education:...
for The Source of Trouble - 1990 Nancy ZafrisNancy ZafrisNancy Zafris is an American novelist, and short story writer.She has won individual artist’s grants, from the Massachusetts Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Ohio Arts Council. She was a Senior Fulbright Fellow, and taught at Masaryk University...
for The People I Know - 1990 Antonya NelsonAntonya NelsonAntonya Nelson is an American author and teacher of creative writing who writes primarily short stories.-Life and education:Antonya Nelson was born January 6, 1961 in Wichita, Kansas....
for The Expendables - 1989 Carol L. Glickfeld for Useful Gifts
- 1988 Gail Galloway AdamsGail Galloway Adams-Life:She grew up in Central Texas.She taught at West Virginia University, retiring in 2008.She edited Arts & Letters.Her work appeared in Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, North American Review, Story Quarterly....
for The Purchase of Order - 1988 Philip F. DeaverPhilip F. DeaverPhilip F. Deaver is an American writer and poet from Tuscola, Illinois. His work has appeared in literary magazines, including The New England Review, the Kenyon Review, Frostproof Review, the Florida Review, Poetry Miscellany and The Reaper....
for Silent Retreats - 1987 Melissa PritchardMelissa PritchardMelissa Pritchard is an American short story writer, novelist, essayist, and journalist.-Life:Melissa Pritchard was born on December 12 in San Mateo, California. She grew up in San Mateo, Burlingame and Menlo Park and attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart High School in Atherton, California...
for Spirit Seizures - 1987 Salvatore La PumaSalvatore La PumaSalvatore John Giovanni La Puma was an Italian American short story writer.-Life:He was born and raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. In 1951, he was drafted, and served in the Korea War as a medic. In 1959, he moved to Westchester, and worked as an advertising copy editor...
for The Boys of Bensonhurst - 1986 Tony ArdizzoneTony ArdizzoneAnthony V. Ardizzone is an American novelist, short story writer, and editor.-Biography:Ardizzone was raised on the North Side of Chicago. He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 1971 and from Bowling Green State University with an MFA in 1975...
for The Evening News (stories)The Evening News (stories)The Evening News is Tony Ardizzone's first collection of stories, and winner of the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. The collection is a small press book published in 1986 by the University of Georgia Press.-Themes:... - 1986 Peter MeinkePeter MeinkePeter Meinke is an American poet and author. He has published 17 books of poems and short stories. The Piano Tuner, won the 1986 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His poetry has received many awards, including 2 NEA Fellowships and 3 prizes from the Poetry Society of America...
for The Piano Tuner - 1985 Daniel CurleyDaniel CurleyDaniel Curley was an American novelist and short story writer.-Life:He was a native of East Bridgeport, Massachusetts. He graduated from the University of Alabama.He taught at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....
Living with Snakes - 1985 Molly GilesMolly GilesMolly Giles is a short story writer and professor at the University of Arkansas. She formerly taught at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Creek Walk and Other Stories published in 1997 and the novel Iron Shoes published in 2000...
for Rough Translations - 1985 François CamoinFrançois CamoinFrançois André Camoin is an American short story writer.-Life:He came to the United States in 1952.He graduated from University of Massachusetts with a Ph.D. in 1967.He teaches at University of Utah...
for Why Men are Afraid of Women - 1984 Mary HoodMary HoodMary Hood is an award-winning fiction writer of predominantly Southern literature, who has authored two short story collections - How Far She Went and And Venus is Blue - and a novel, Familiar Heat...
for How Far She Went - 1984 Susan NevilleSusan NevilleSusan Neville is an American short story writer, and writing professor.-Life:She graduated from DePauw University, in 1973. She married Ken Neville....
for The Invention of Flight - 1984 Sandra ThompsonSandra Thompson (writer)Sandra Thompson is an American novelist, short story writer, essayist and memoirist.-Life:She was raised in Park Ridge, Illinois....
for Close-Ups - 1983 Leigh Allison WilsonLeigh Allison WilsonLeigh Allison Wilson, is an award-winning American short story writer, and teacher. Her work has appeared in Harper's, Grand Street, and the Southern Review. Her story "Bullhead" was read on National Public Radio in 2008....
for From the Bottom Up - 1983 David WaltonDavid Walton (writer)-Life:He teaches at the University of Pittsburgh in Oakland.He lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.-Review:There's a certain uncanny elegance to RIDE , David Walton's first novel...
for Evening Out
See also
- List of American literary awards
- Brad ViceBrad ViceBrad Vice is a fiction writer whose short story collection, The Bear Bryant Funeral Train, won the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction from the University of Georgia Press...
- Greg DownsGreg DownsFor information about the former footballer, see Greg Downs Greg Downs is the author of the Flannery O'Connor Award-winning short story collection, Spit Baths published in 2006 by the University of Georgia Press and of the history book published in 2011 by the University of North Carolina Press...
- David CrouseDavid CrouseDavid Crouse is a short story writer and teacher. Crouse's work explores issues of identity and alienation, and his stories are populated with characters living on the fringes of American society. The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction was awarded to him in 2005 for his first collection of...
- Molly GilesMolly GilesMolly Giles is a short story writer and professor at the University of Arkansas. She formerly taught at San Francisco State University. She is the author of Creek Walk and Other Stories published in 1997 and the novel Iron Shoes published in 2000...
- Mary HoodMary HoodMary Hood is an award-winning fiction writer of predominantly Southern literature, who has authored two short story collections - How Far She Went and And Venus is Blue - and a novel, Familiar Heat...
- Andrew J. PorterAndrew J. PorterAndrew J. Porter is an American short story writer.-Life:Andrew Porter graduated from Vassar College, and the Iowa Writers' Workshop....
- Nancy ZafrisNancy ZafrisNancy Zafris is an American novelist, and short story writer.She has won individual artist’s grants, from the Massachusetts Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Ohio Arts Council. She was a Senior Fulbright Fellow, and taught at Masaryk University...